Chasing The Saturdays show axed leaving girl band’s US dreams in tatters

The Saturdays’ debut US reality TV show has not been recommissioned (Picture: Getty)

The Saturdays’ dreams of cracking the US look over before they’ve begun as their debut reality TV show has been canned.

Chasing The Saturdays, which documented the girl group trying to crack the US, only lasted one series on US network E! before being shown the back door by TV execs unhappy with poor ratings.

US figures for the ten-episode series were so poor they went as low as 100,000.

And it seems the reason Americans weren’t fussed about the show was because Mollie King, Frankie Sanford, Una Healy, Vanessa White and Rochelle Humes got on far too well.

‘It got killed in the ratings,’ a source told The Sun. ‘US fans like drama and conflict but The Saturdays actually liked each other.’

Chasing The Saturdays aired for one series (Picture: E!)

But a spokesman for the band was quick to point out the show had only ever been commissioned for one series and the girls are already in talks to do a Christmas special.

‘Chasing The Saturdays was originally only commissioned for one season,’ the spokesman said. ‘The show has since been picked up by 46 territories around the world. The head of E! is coming into the UK next week to discuss a Christmas special.’

Rochelle told Metro in March how she and the girls think their strong friendship is the exact reason the fly-on-the-wall show was a success with US audiences.

The girls are now in talks to film a Christmas special (Picture: Getty)

‘Everyone always thinks we don’t get on or there’s rivalry in the girl band but it’s so far from the truth so we’ve always wanted to do it,’ she told us. ‘We’ve not got anything to hide. People just want it to happen.’

But she admitted there were no plans for a second series because of their busy schedule. And, with Rochelle and Frankie having babies on the way, it’s a good job they don’t need to start filming again.

‘There won’t be time to film a second one until we’ve finished putting this one [first series] out. It was definitely fun,’ she added.

Perhaps their LA dreams weren’t meant to be. Rochelle also revealed that none of the girls would ever leave Blighty for Tinseltown.

‘We’d never move there,’ she said. ‘We’re home girls, we’ve got our families here and our foundations. This is home.’